BACKGROUND Isotretinoin is an effective acne medication. The evidence for it causing depression and suicide, although widely publicised, remains uncertain. METHODS Twenty-six semi-structured interviews with patients with ...

In 2001 New South Wales Health reported an increase in the number of patients who did not wait for treatment in emergency departments. Because so little was known about this group of patients a study was conducted to ...

To discuss the impact of patient transfers on patient outcomes and nursing workload. Many patient transfers are essential and occur in response to patients. However, increasingly within Australia transfers are performed ...

Colon cancer is the fourth most common cancer globally with 639,000 deaths reported annually. Typical chemotherapy is provided by injection route to reduce tumor growth and metastasis. Recent research investigates the oral ...

People with an intellectual disability and their families experience poorer health care compared with the general population. Living with an intellectual disability is often challenged by coexisting complex and chronic ...

Purpose: Literature suggests that quality of life (QOL), quality of care (QOC) and Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) can be improved by relatively simple and inexpensive person-centred approaches ...

Purpose To better understand the factors that influence the initiation of first intercourse among adolescent females and to explore the context in which this occurs. Methods A purposive sample of sexually active female ...

ntroduction: Long side-firing microwave (MW) arrays can deliver energy uniformly over its length without the need for intimate endocardial contact. We hypothesize that a novel 6 Fr 20 mm long percutaneous high-efficiency ...

Abstract. The relationship of skin disease with societal ideals of beauty, and the role of the media in this relationship, has not previously been researched. The overall objective of this study was to explore the psychological ...